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Welcome to the Insight Community within the AnalyticsZone. The Insight Community is your place to connect with over 24,000 other community members to share in the experience using IBM Cognos Insight while accessing all of the valuable resources we have at your disposal to get the most out of Cognos Insight, our personal analytics solution with enterprise-connected, sharing capabilities! We certainly want to make sure you're getting the information you need to understand all of the powerful capabilities in Cognos Insight to transform... [More]

Unless you've been living under a rock the past month, you're aware that we recently released a new version of IBM Cognos Insight - Version 10.2.0.1 to be exact. This release includes many exciting new features that we reviewed during an AnalyticsZone webcast on March 27th. (Click here to see this webcast replay.) This new release includes a new theme, new charts and display features, a new widget alignment mechanism and so much more! Since different people prefer alternative methods to digest information, rather than... [More]

Greta Brauer from BrightStar Partners...Congratulations Greta! The AnalyticsZone is very excited to announce Greta as our winner of the Driving Insight with Insight contest! Greta created a unique and compelling IBM Cognos Insight application centered around the Chicago Transit Authority, the public transportation system in the city of Chicago. Greta's application was exceptional providing enlightening insights on local bus and train scheduling directly linked to related crime statistics. Also, included in this application... [More]

Welcome to the Insight Community Blog! We’re excited to announce the release of a new version of IBM Cognos Insight! This version includes significant improvements to Cognos Insight's core capabilities making it much easier for business users to do the all-important analytics tasks that they've come to love doing in Cognos Insight. Those improvements were made to this version's data import and file consolidations for either desktop- or server-based data. Optimizations were also made to this version of Cognos... [More]

Welcome to the Insight Community Blog! We’re excited to announce the release of a new version of IBM Cognos Insight! This version includes significant improvements to Cognos Insight's core capabilities making it much easier for business users to do the all-important analytics tasks that they've come to love doing in Cognos Insight. Those improvements were made to this version's data import and file consolidations for either desktop- or server-based data. Optimizations were also made to this version of Cognos... [More]

Hello AnalyticsZone Members, We need your vote! That's right. We need your vote in the AnalyticsZone's Driving Insight Contest which ends tonight at 12am Eastern Standard Time. We have a number of exceptional Cognos Insight applications that were developed from scratch and submitted by our very own AnalyticsZone members. They're all in the running to win a 2013 Honda Insight. These members used our free, downloadable IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition software to create their applications. The... [More]

This is a brief blog post making you aware of the excellent resources available to you on importing data into IBM Cognos Insight where the data source is an IBM Cognos TM1 Server, IBM Cognos BI Package or IBM Cognos BI report. One of the many great features of IBM Cognos Insight is its ability to easily import data from multiple data sources. Whether those data sources are local .csv or .txt files on your desktop or network server-based relational data files in a Microsoft Access database, or even data in an IBM Cognos BI Report or BI... [More]

Congratulations on downloading your free copy of IBM Cognos Insight! If you're unfamiliar with Cognos Insight it's our personal analytics solution that lets you explore, analyze, visualize and share data without relying on IT for assistance. In minutes, analysts and line-of-business managers can create and share custom applications, dashboards and visualizations to help solve individual and workgroup challenges. If you don't have our free, downloadable copy of Cognos Insight, click here to get it now! Before you... [More]

Congratulations on getting your free copy of IBM Cognos Insight - Personal Edition! If you don't have a free copy of this exciting personal analytics solution from IBM you can do so now by clicking here or on the image to the left. My hope in this blog post is that I can get you started more quickly by walking you through the resources we've made available to you to fast track you to creating your own applications and exploiting the powerful capabilities Cognos Insight has in its toolbox to drive great individual and... [More]

Congratulations on getting your free copy of IBM Cognos Insight - Personal Edition! If you don't have a free copy of this exciting personal analytics solution from IBM you can do so now by clicking here or on the image to the left. My hope in this blog post is that I can get you started more quickly by walking you through the resources we've made available to you to fast track you to creating your own applications and exploiting the powerful capabilities Cognos Insight has in its toolbox to drive great individual and... [More]

Going back to the 1960′s, IBM was the 800-pound gorilla in the mainframe business whose technology supremacy went unchallenged. Superior performance at IBM went virtually unabated into the 1970′s. IBM were the blue suits bearing information-based mainframes to help companies use data to run their large businesses with greater know-how about their customers, products, operations, and financial performance far more adeptly than any other competing mainframe technology could. IBM was considered the masters of product... [More]

The global economic crisis, which seemingly began with the U.S. housing market’s nose-dive in late 2007, continues to choke the world economy. As we all have come to know, this financial meltdown has served as a jack-hammered catalyst for governments and corporations today to re-evaluate their risk management practices – assuming, of course, they had one in the first place. Most didn’t. Apart from corporate behemoths formal risk management practices didn’t really exist outside of the top-level business... [More]

"Down goes Frasier! Down goes Frasier! Down goes Frasier!" - Howard Cosell The year was 1973 and these words are what might be considered the most quoted moment in boxing history. This frequently referenced boxing moment happened during the heavyweight championship of the world between reigning champion, Joe Frasier, and his challenger, George Foreman. Foreman was thought by many to be a long shot which is part of the reason Cosell's "down goes Frasier" quote stands out like it does. ... [More]

In the spirit of "brevity being the soul of wit" I thought I'd put together a really short explanation of analytics for those looking for a Reader's Digest version. So, here goes: Analytics facilitates a cohesive banding together of the organization for execution-oriented organizational alignment, enterprise agility and better performance enabling action. Smarter decisions result leading to superior performance. ... [More]

Imagine en tering the cockpit of a modern jet airplane and seeing only a single instrument there. How would you feel about boarding the plane after the following conversation with the pilot? Q: I’m surprised to see you operating a plane with only a single instrument. What does it measure? A: Airspeed. I’m really working on airspeed this flight. Q: That’s good. Airspeed certainly seems important. But what about altitude. Wouldn’t an altimeter be helpful? A: I worked on altitude for the last few flights and... [More]